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Bill Watterson Grants First Interview In Over 20 Years

post #1 of 35
2/1/10 at 11:37pm
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http://www.cleveland.com/living/inde...r_of_belo.html
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post #2 of 35
2/1/10 at 11:42pm
WTF is with Cleveland and comic strip/book guys? Why are they all from there?
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post #3 of 35
2/1/10 at 11:49pm
C&H stamps? That's pretty cool.
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post #4 of 35
2/2/10 at 12:31am
Watterson did a public Q&A session in 2005. So it kinda depends on your definition of interview. But, semantics aside, his comments were pretty much what I expected from Watterson.
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post #5 of 35
2/2/10 at 3:26pm
I'm certainly glad he ended the strip when he felt it was time.

But it does seem odd that a talent that great hasn't bestirred itself much in the years since.
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post #6 of 35
2/2/10 at 3:36pm
Good work on the thread, Gator boy! You beat me to it, I accidently posted a seperate topic for that interview.

So to condense, I'll just respost what I posted there, here.
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This strip, the last C+H story ever to run, hangs framed on the wall of my room at my Mom's house.


Very cool interview, worth a read. Unfortunately no plans are mentioned for bringing the strip back any time soon (if ever*)


*I still have my fingers crossed
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post #7 of 35
2/2/10 at 3:44pm
I think I would pretty much only use Calvin and Hobbes stamps once released.

I'm glad he looked at the idea of a legacy and went out on top. I still read Calvin and Hobbes, it's the only comic in my google main page. Every kid should own a copy of Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat.
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post #8 of 35
2/2/10 at 5:24pm
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I think I would pretty much only use Calvin and Hobbes stamps once released.

I'm glad he looked at the idea of a legacy and went out on top. I still read Calvin and Hobbes, it's the only comic in my google main page. Every kid should own a copy of Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat.
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons, my favorite. I think it has the longest running story in C+H history , when Calvin brings the snow goons to life.
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post #9 of 35
2/2/10 at 5:30pm
I just read Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" last night for no real reason. Calvin is the kind of foul-mouthed malcontnent I hope my kids turn out to be.
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post #10 of 35
2/2/10 at 8:42pm
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I'm glad he looked at the idea of a legacy and went out on top. I still read Calvin and Hobbes, it's the only comic in my google main page. Every kid should own a copy of Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat.
My mind was so blown when my dad pointed out that you could sing that book title to "Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
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post #11 of 35
2/2/10 at 11:13pm
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WTF is with Cleveland and comic strip/book guys? Why are they all from there?
The serious answer is that despite its blue-collar/rust belt reputation, Cleveland has a really strong artistic community -- museums, theaters, etc. -- and some top-notch art schools. Cleveland is up there with Chicago and New York as places to get theatrical training/work, especially if you're a young actor, and tons of guys have passed through the Shakespeare Festival. (The disadvantage being that there hasn't been a company out of Cleveland to really produce stellar original work a la Circle Rep or Steppenwolf.)

The short answer is that if you lived in Cleveland, you'd spend all your time inside drawing and creating a fantasy world to escape into, too.
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post #12 of 35
2/3/10 at 8:58pm
Has anyone seen Uncle Max?
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post #13 of 35
2/4/10 at 4:02pm
Has he wandered off again, Kate?
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post #14 of 35
2/5/10 at 10:15am
Well, that's a nice coincidence, since I just finished this a week ago: http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Calvin...5375642&sr=1-1

Anybody else read it?
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post #15 of 35
2/5/10 at 10:33am
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Well, that's a nice coincidence, since I just finished this a week ago: http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Calvin...5375642&sr=1-1

Anybody else read it?
Because when you write it down, it's not stalking.
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post #16 of 35
2/5/10 at 11:13am
I'm a bit disappointed he never illustrated anything else. Besides being hilarious, C&H was often beautiful to look at. And Watterson could draw a mean dinosaur. Did the guy's hand fall off? The interviewer dropped the ball.
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post #17 of 35
2/5/10 at 11:56am
He did some political cartooning before C&H, and is apparently doing watercolors these days.
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post #18 of 35
2/5/10 at 12:46pm
The guy that wrote that book has to be so pissed about this.
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post #19 of 35
2/5/10 at 12:53pm
I have 3 different C&H cartoons up on my fridge--one about Santa deciding if he's going to visit Calvin, one of C&H playing War, and one with Spaceman Spiff crashing which turns out to be Calvin crashing his dad's computer. I also have the wall art of the first comic strip and the last comic strip.
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post #20 of 35
2/8/10 at 1:54pm
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Has he wandered off again, Kate?
Calvin had an "uncle Max" who showed up only once, and never again. It's like the Chuck Cunningham of C+H.

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I have 3 different C&H cartoons up on my fridge--one about Santa deciding if he's going to visit Calvin, one of C&H playing War, and one with Spaceman Spiff crashing which turns out to be Calvin crashing his dad's computer. I also have the wall art of the first comic strip and the last comic strip.

I never cared for the first strip. It's like a lame peanuts strip, trying to catch the tiger with tuna.
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post #21 of 35
2/8/10 at 2:08pm
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I never cared for the first strip. It's like a lame peanuts strip, trying to catch the tiger with tuna.
The first strip is not what is important, what it set in motion, what it made possible, is.
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post #22 of 35
2/8/10 at 2:10pm
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The first strip is not what is important, what it set in motion, what it made possible, is.
Fair enough.
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post #23 of 35
2/9/10 at 1:05am
One of my fave C+H moments is when Calvin tries to fool his mom by putting Hobbes in his school uniform outside his bedroom door when she calls him for school.
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post #24 of 35
2/22/10 at 12:45pm
Oh, if only he would have cashed in on the various Calvin pissing car stickers...
Of course I know he was in the middle of a law suite, but it's been awhile.
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post #25 of 35
2/22/10 at 12:57pm
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Oh, if only he would have cashed in on the various Calvin pissing car stickers...
Of course I know he was in the middle of a law suite, but it's been awhile.
Calvin would never have done that. The Calvin stickers must have offended him to no end, because he'd never have drawn Calvin doing that. Calvin wasn't vulgar. He didn't get his kicks from urinating on stuff. He was wacky and wild, but whoever made that sticker understood nothing about C+H


THE REAL CALVIN AND HOBBES
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post #26 of 35
2/22/10 at 1:05pm
I don't believe that who ever "created" those stickers had Calvin's best intreats at heart.
It just comes down to some hick using a character that is well known and making him do something pretty graphic.
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post #27 of 35
2/22/10 at 1:17pm
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I don't believe that who ever "created" those stickers had Calvin's best intreats at heart.
It just comes down to some hick using a character that is well known and making him do something pretty graphic.
I know, it makes me sad. I remember when those first started turning up. The first one I ever saw was on the board of a snow boarder, and that helped to turn me against boarding for life. They're kind of helpful though, anyone I see sporting one is someone I know not to talk to or befriend
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post #28 of 35
2/22/10 at 2:16pm
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IThe first one I ever saw was on the board of a snow boarder, and that helped to turn me against boarding for life.
As someone who has boarded for 19 years, I am hereby informing you that I am totally giving you the finger right now.
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post #29 of 35
2/22/10 at 2:18pm
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As someone who has boarded for 19 years, I am hereby informing you that I am totally giving you the finger right now.
While urinating, I'm certain.

PS I ski so officially we have to be enemies now, cause that's how it works. Grr!
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post #30 of 35
2/22/10 at 2:22pm
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While urinating, I'm certain.
Of course not. I don't have a Chevy emblem handy at the moment.
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post #31 of 35
2/22/10 at 2:25pm
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Of course not. I don't have a Chevy emblem handy at the moment.
Haha

PS Why would Calvin as a six year old care one way or another about Chevy? The dunderheadedness of those stickers is whats so frustrating to me.
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post #32 of 35
2/24/10 at 1:41am
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If the Calvin pissing car stickers pissed Watterson off, I'm betting the Calvin praying to the cross ones gave him a conniption fit.
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post #33 of 35
3/12/10 at 12:17pm
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/9081

College-era comics from Watterson.
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post #34 of 35
3/19/10 at 1:11am
I have a troubled relationship with C&H. I loved it as a kid, but somewhere between now and that time I've read all of his stuff again, and all his commentaries on things, and now I can't get back to that way I felt as a kid. I see all the "SEE THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH THINGS NOW" bits, the "HAY LOOK I'M TALKING ABOUT MY PROBLEMS WITH THE HIGHER UPS" stuff and... I dunno, I wish I felt differently.
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post #35 of 35
3/19/10 at 2:51am
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I have a troubled relationship with C&H. I loved it as a kid, but somewhere between now and that time I've read all of his stuff again, and all his commentaries on things, and now I can't get back to that way I felt as a kid. I see all the "SEE THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH THINGS NOW" bits, the "HAY LOOK I'M TALKING ABOUT MY PROBLEMS WITH THE HIGHER UPS" stuff and... I dunno, I wish I felt differently.
I had basically the same experience. I got the entire collection as a gift, and while I still enjoy reading them, there is quite a bit of what you mentioned, and it does get old after a while. It's like my grandfather wrote a comic strip about why younger generations suck.
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